February 6: Waitangi Day in New Zealand ( 1840); Sapporo Snow Festival in Japan begins ( 2007).
- 1819 - Stamford Raffles (pictured) founded Singapore, a new trading post for the British East India Company.
- 1840 - The British and the Māori signed the Treaty of Waitangi, considered as the founding document of New Zealand.
- 1922 - France, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States signed the Washington Naval Treaty to limit naval armaments.
- 1934 - In an attempted coup d'état against the French Third Republic, far right leagues demonstrated on the Place de la Concorde in Paris.
- 1959 - Jack Kilby filed the patent for the first integrated circuit.
Recent days: February 5 – February 4 – February 3
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February 6: Waitangi Day in New Zealand ( 1840); Sapporo Snow Festival in Japan begins ( 2007).
- 1819 - Stamford Raffles (pictured) founded Singapore, a new trading post for the British East India Company.
- 1840 - The British and the Māori signed the Treaty of Waitangi, considered as the founding document of New Zealand.
- 1922 - France, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States signed the Washington Naval Treaty to limit naval armaments.
- 1934 - In an attempted coup d'état against the French Third Republic, far right leagues demonstrated on the Place de la Concorde in Paris.
- 1959 - Jack Kilby filed the patent for the first integrated circuit.
Recent days: February 5 – February 4 – February 3
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